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... employed his utmost endeav- ors to induce those who frequented the liqnor ships to stay away, but found that while they submitted, they were, neverth... ...red again into drink. Having made this obser- vation, he converted hie own ships into tobacco shops and undersold the li(iuor vessels witli such good ... ...rceiving his good re- sults, passed a law forbidding the sale of liquor on ship-bonrd. The second evil, which the mis- sionary set out to combat, was ... ... alrrfldy drawn it. Tlioy nro hiKh-Rrade. excliiBivo novellicH In llm very top not<!li of hI yhi. No TK'«rd to ank, 18 lliat jiRiM;rKO"d form V" lA>ok... ... tour. There are no easy grada- tions on the schedule; the nine must be in top form VVednesday and Saturday to meet teams which in the ijast have more... ...not be- lieve that we have received more than a hint of what is to 'be the top form of the team for the two final games of IhesPason. With half of a d... ...e foliage, has received the well-deserved name of '-The Earthly Paradise." Sailing from Corfu, the islands of Vide, Ithaca and "The Ship of Ulysses," ... ...io. 3. "The Sword of Ferrara", Bnllard I. B. Merrill. 3. (a) "My Ship Went Sailing", (b) "My Rose". (o) "DisMomin', Las' Even' So Soon". Southern Trio... ...elf to his mind was a change of environment, and so ho was on the point of sailing for Soutli America. Friends in the luiiversity persuaded him, how- ...

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... began to swim, the ground began to sway under his feet like the deck of a ship in a rolling sea. He began to cry out and gasp and weep all at the sam... ...uds sailed calmly across it; they seemed to know why and whither they were sailing. At this same time in other places on the earth there is the seethi... ...es I am not even a woman.” “Impossible,” repeated Lavretsky, fastening the top but- tons of his coat. “I don’t know what induced you to come here; I s...

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... About the gates of Rye? O that was where the Northmen fled, When Alfred’s ships came by! See you our pastures wide and lone, Where the red oxen brows... ...es and rises for five hundred feet, till at last you climb out on the bare top of Beacon Hill, to look over the Pevensey Levels and the Chan- nel and ... ...ded. They were always landing in those days, or being driven back to their ships, and they always brought their Gods with them. England is a bad count... ...s Weland’s Ford then, dearie. A road led down to it from the Beacon on the top of the hill—a shocking bad road it was—and all the hillside was thick, ... ...g a young novice came along from the monas- tery that used to stand on the top of Beacon Hill.’ ‘What’s a novice?’ said Dan. ‘It really means a man wh... ...ow England hath taken me! As for my Father in his tower, Asking news of my ship at sea; He will remember his own hour— Tell him England hath taken me!... ...go,’explained Una. 39 Rudyard Kipling ‘We’re nearly always explorers now. Sailing round the world, you know.’ ‘Round?’ said Sir Richard. He sat him i... ...ce if he sold us to the Moors—as once befell a knight of my acquain- tance sailing from Flushing. “‘Not by my father Guthrum’s head,” said he. “The Go... ...s an old, old man at that time.’ ‘When?’ said Dan. ‘When we came back from sailing with Witta.’ ‘What did you do with your gold?’ said Dan. ‘Have pati...

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... night sky. He laid back on his bed roll and watched the stars poke through the top of the world forming a quilt of sparkling jewels. Once again, Ri... ...f the Ice". A hand-carved whale encircled the pole with a bald eagle nesting on top of the totem. The intricate and once brightly painted figures wh... ...f square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of one hip to the opposite thigh, just above where the long slit... ...Moving his body at certain an­ gles, he found he could tack into the wind like a sailing ship. He was now able to take full advantage of the on rushi... ...is body at certain an­ gles, he found he could tack into the wind like a sailing ship. He was now able to take full advantage of the on rushing curre... ...e night before began to grip him in a vice of fear. What a dream he thought. A ship's clock on the mantle read six-thirty. Clumsily, he rose from t... ...s needle in a haystack." He stared at a room full of blank faces un­ til, Frank Shipley, who had performed more autopsies than any­ one could count, ... ... and tedious voyage, the Italian vessel docked in New York's merchant shipyard. Sailing into New York, Aaron witnessed a sight he would never forget...

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...deserted shrine to Kali—who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes wor- shipped against the smallpox. Purun Dass swept the stone floor clean, smile... ...orms like 56 The Second Jungle Book pigeon-perches, made of sticks at the top of four poles—to scare away birds and other stealers. Then the deer wer... ...g, his bow in his hand, and two or three poisoned arrows stuck through his top- knot, looking half afraid and half contemptuously at the anxious villa... ... his little eyes burned like coals under the heavy, horny eye- lids on the top of his triangular head, as he shoved his bloated barrel-body along betw... ...fter swallowing a seven-pound lump of Wenham Lake ice, off an American ice-ship, in the days before Calcutta made her ice by machinery; but as he did ... ... Cumberland Sounds; and so the chain went on, till a kettle picked up by a ship’s cook in the Bhendy Bazaar might end its days over a blubber-lamp som... ...d the pack-ice, the gale and the currents were bring- ing down true bergs, sailing mountains of ice, snapped off from the Greenland side of the water ...

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...eak from hunger, exerted their last strength. Up — up — the sled poised on the top of the bank; but the leader swung the string of dogs behind him to ... ...y swing around the capstan circle and the sea snorts in their ears: — “Yan kee ship come down de ri ib er, Pull! my bully boys! Pull! D’yeh want — to ... ...y enunciated the Kid. The man paid no heed. “Where do you come from?” “Yan kee ship come down de ri ib er,” was the quavering re sponse. “Don’t doubt... ... but then I was a chief, and the son of a chief, and it did not matter. “But a ship shoved her sails above the floor of the ocean, and grew larger with... ... Yeddo Bay had met from the ends of the earth, and had neither gods nor homes, sailing under the flag of the Japanese. And with them I went to the rich... ...ame table uprose and began to read aloud from many fine sheets of paper. At the top of each sheet he cleared his throat, at the bottom moistened his fin... ..., and the wisdom of those ances tors was his. When Lecl` ere’s weight came on top of him, he drove his hind legs upward and in, and clawed down chest... ...re as peaceable as they are primitive. Yet they were not always peaceable. The Sailing Directions speak of them as hostile and treacherous. But the me... ...rections speak of them as hostile and treacherous. But the men who compile the Sailing Directions have never heard of the change that was worked in th...

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... with which it never mixed. Boats with- out awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, ... ...ed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled ... ...and day for fifteen years. There was a little mound of damped ashes on the top of the fire, and another little mound swept together under the grate, a... ...himself, wished the old man good night, and went up-stairs with her to the top of the house. They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old... ...advancing an old and faithful servant. Jeremiah, the cap- tain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.’ Jeremiah, whose eyes glist... ...; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it... ...rcial Colos- sus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner. Behold the vessels coming into port! The engaging youn... ...nd to swim with a weight and balance that developed her 589 Little Dorrit sailing qualities. ‘The preliminaries being so satisfactorily arranged, I t...

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... he confesses unashamed: ‘I said I worshipped him . . . I cannot help wor- shipping him, he is so much superior to other men.’ He studied his subject ... ... 17 Boswell’s Life of Johnson parts discernment. Thus, through his friend- ship with Boswell, Johnson will realize his wish, still to be teaching as t... ... corrected my inaccuracy, by shewing me, that it was indeed pointed at the top, but that one side of it was larger than the other. And the ladies with... ...e, till at last he appeared in his shirt, with his little black wig on the top of his head, instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining,... ...d, to whom Johnson had paid the high compliment of addressing to his Lord- ship the Plan of his Dictionary, had behaved to him in such a manner as to ... ...ad the girl in The Mourning Bride said, she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, ... ...‘It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames, to accost each other as they passed, in the most a...

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...indpipe. Our epiglottis, a thin flap of flexible tissue attached to the top of the voice box, is unique to humans. When we swallow, it folds back ... ... or syllables. Some read from left to right, others right to left or from top to bottom or back and forth like the rows in a plowed field. Scribe... ...ople) in recognition of the precious purple ―Tyrian‖ cloth they produced. Shipped from Tyre, their main port and trading center, it was extremely co... ...rial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using manpowered sailing galleys. They transported goods all across the Mediterranean and e... ...goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradu... ... the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a century befo... ...eserved accurately and without alteration for generations, he ordered his top aides to learn to read and write. (He foreshadowed Gutenberg when he...

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... raised to sover- eign power. Penn set sail for his new dominions with two ships freighted with Quakers, who followed his fortune. The country was the... ...ent are fond of comparing themselves to the old Romans. Not long since Mr. Shippen opened a speech in the House of Commons with these words, “The maje... ... never so but when the king raises the storm—when he attempts to seize the ship of which he is only the chief pilot. The civil wars of France lasted l... ...he, make an experiment to see whether the same clock will go faster on the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; whether the strength of the w... ... a tempest missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping. On Œta’s top thus Hercules lay dead, With ruined oaks and pines about him spread. Na... ...he angle which the sail of a ship is to make with the keel in order to its sailing better; and yet Columbus discovered America with- out having the le...

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...upwards; large and rambling in his gait, with shaggy side whiskers, a bald top to his head, and a veiled grey eye, which now and then emitted a twinkl... ...ght as the cabinet into which it opened, but much larger, and papered from top to bottom with an imitation of oak wainscot. A large and cheerful fire ... ...easure of emotion as he closed the procession up the winding stair. At the top the guide threw open a door and ushered the three officers before him i... ...the links, the place told of nothing but dead mariners and sea disaster. A ship beating to windward on the horizon, and a huge truncheon of wreck half... ...e ground rose into a little hill, which, along with the islet, served as a sailing mark 147 New Arabian Nights for seamen. When the hill was open of ... ...n in the village. He said he had once seen some Norwe- gians, who had been shipwrecked on the other side of Graden Ness and rescued by the lifeboat fr...

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... have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy heart... ...w, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain glimmer of the light, ‘rising and fallin... ... the dead and gone Fletcher by a savage mother, leaps aboard His Majesty’s ship Briton, hove to off Pitcairn’s Island; says his simple grace before ea... ... are in fact what would be popularly called rather a nobby place. Some tip top ‘Nobbs’ come down occasionally—even Dukes and Duchesses. We have known ... ...in. We have an old walled town, rich in cool public wells of water, on the top of a hill within and above the present busi ness town; and if it were ... ... are rooted in the deep streets below, bursting into a fresher existence a top, and having doors and 36 Reprinted Pieces windows, and even gardens, o... ...And from that time forth, those enchanting ships went 171 Charles Dickens sailing, against wind and tide and rhyme and reason, round and round the wo... ... has a fine crop of blue bushes sprouting out of the roof; and a blue boat sailing above them, the mast of which is burglariously sticking itself into...

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...re, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father’s ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafar... ...in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London. Never any young adventurer’s mis- fortunes, I believ... ...mis- fortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the se... ... with what we call a shoulder- of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him t... ...twice in the daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and had a great mind to vent... ...whole day, but at last we got off the hide of him, and spreading it on the top of our cabin, the sun effectually dried it in two days’ time, and it af... ...e other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I thought of nothing but sailing round the island. For this purpose, that I might do everything with...

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...re, and one of my Companions being going by Sea to London, in his Father’s Ship, and prompting me to go with them, with the common Allurement of Seafa... ... an ill Hour, God knows. On the first of September 1651 I went on Board a ; Ship bound for London; never any young Adventurer’s Misfortunes, I believe,... ...s Misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The Ship was no sooner gotten out of the Humber, but the Wind began to blow, an... ...he Morning, the Wind increased, and we had all Hands at Work to strike our Top Masts, and make every thing snug and close, that the Ship might ride as... ...’d with that we can a Shoulder of Mutton Sail; and the Boom gib’d over the Top of the Cabbin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it Room for him ... ...ice in the Day time, I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries ; and had a great mind to ven... ...e other Parts of the Coast; and now I had a Boat, I thought of nothing but sailing round the Island. For this Purpose, that I might do every Thing wit...

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...7 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771. The country seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to style him. B. DEAR SO... ...“Then,” says he, “get yourself ready to go with Annis;” which was the annual ship, and the only one at that time usually pass ing between London and ... ...ere to be ready, but a future time was still named. Thus he went on till the ship, whose departure too had been several times postponed, was on the po... ...p, whose departure too had been several times postponed, was on the point of sailing. Then, when I call’d to take my leave and receive the letters, hi... ...ily to acquire the Latin. It is true that, if you can clamber and get to the top of a staircase without using the steps, you will more easily gain the... ...ertainly, if you begin with the lowest you will with more ease ascend to the top; and I would therefore offer it to the consider ation of those who s... ... numerous, observ’d the most exact silence. He preach’d one evening from the top of the Court house steps, which are in the middle of Market street, a... ...rd from him, and could not know what he was doing. This daily expectation of sailing, and all the three paquets going down to Sandy Hook, to join the ... ...t his ship was grown foul, to a degree that must necessarily hinder her fast sailing, a point of consequence for a paquet boat, and requested an allow...

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...rder. But this must not be taken as a propitiatory offering to the gods of shipwreck; I trust my cargo unreservedly to the chances of the sea; and do ... ... are of a sort that is really indifferent in art. If Shakespeare makes his ships cast anchor by some seaport of Bohemia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Ja... ...y write. Religion, poetry, love, and charming sensibility, are the current top- ics. “I am delighted, charming Clarinda, with your honest enthusiasm f... ...dabout approaches. If verbal logic were sufficient, life would be as plain sailing as a piece of Euclid. But, as a matter of fact, we make a travesty ... ... the hill-tops but in the factory; not only by the harbour full of stately ships, but in the magazine of the hope- lessly prosaic hatter. To show beau... ... the plain at the base of the mountain instead of climbing steadily to its top. Of course you will be glad of all the society you can get to go up wit... ...ll, dated 1558, no mention either of her or of Knox’s wife.* This is plain sailing. It is easy enough to understand the anger of Bowes against this in...